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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Reorganize request bits

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On 01/07/2016 03:17 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> There is no need for request bits to differ across architectures.  Only
> a handful of them are architecture-independent, the others can all share
> bits 8-31 with overlap.
> 
> Leaving room for more architecture-independent bits means that actually
> no bits are freed, but the cleanup is useful anyway IMO.
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (4):
>   KVM: Remove unused KVM_REQ_KICK to save a bit in
>   KVM: document which architecture uses each request bit
>   KVM: renumber architecture-dependent requests
>   KVM: move architecture-dependent requests to arch/
> 
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  4 ++++
>  arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h    |  4 ++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h     | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                  | 10 ++++++++++
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h            | 39 +++++--------------------------------
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                 | 10 ----------
>  6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> 

For the idea:

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
but no deep review so far.


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[PATCH 0/4] Reorganize request bits Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-01-07 15:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/4] Reorganize request bits Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-01-07 15:30 +0100

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